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I'm sorry, but watching a rich lawyer complain is too good to pass up!

As a member of the DP Bar, I must object.

The middle class is doing themselves a huge disservice lumping themselves in with the poor.

I pay a lot of taxes. Business taxes, property taxes, excise taxes on 50 million phone lines, employer contributions toward employee taxes, well beyond just my personal taxes. But you know what, that does not bother me so much. What bothers me is that there is ZERO meaningful effort to control welfare spending or break the cycles of dependency. When the democrats cut from one place, they spend it somewhere else and pretend they saved billions of dollars. A lot of the alleged medicaid savings are just pushed onto medicare via the new extended medicare covered nursing home periods, for instance. What SSI has become should be an embarrassment to the democrats but they actually defend letting drug addicts and deadbeats game the system. I have zero problem helping a lot of people out, but I have huge fundamental irreconcilable problems with treating the social safety net as a political tool to game elections.

The problem there are too many moochers who live of the government and don't even look for work, there are 3rd generation people who learned not to work and to live off the system from their parents.

Unless there's labor shortages I'm not too concerned with moochers. Just less competition for the jobs so that people who really want to work have better odds. I like employing people who want to work more than those who simply don't want to starve.